Written question asked by Baroness Keeley (Labour) on Friday, 6 January 2017, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 11 January 2017 (named day). It was answered by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative) on Wednesday, 11 January 2017 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Mental Health Services

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many Improving Access to Psychological Therapies services are based within a primary care setting.

Answer: Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services are provided and commissioned locally and therefore this information is not held centrally; however as part of the IAPT expansion to increase access to an additional 600,000 per year 3,000 new mental health therapists will be co-located in primary care as set out in the General Practice Forward View. During 2016/17 and 2017/18, a targeted group of geographies will work to develop the evidence base for implementing new integrated IAPT services at scale, supported by wider investment in training and infrastructure. From 2018/19 integrated services will be rolled out across all clinical commissioning groups in line with the published trajectories.

Secondary information